Windows 11 uses a new COM object to render the modern context menu. By creating this specific CLSID key in your user registry and leaving its InprocServer32 value blank, you effectively block the new menu from loading, forcing Windows to fall back to the legacy "full" menu. If the command fails, you can do it manually:
When File Explorer tries to load the new menu, it sees this empty entry in the user's registry hive and falls back to the legacy code, effectively making the "old" full menu the default. Windows 11 uses a new COM object to
To implement this change, you can use the or Windows Terminal with administrative privileges. To implement this change, you can use the
reg delete "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\86CA1AA0-34AA-4e8B-A509-50C905BAE2A2" /f recommend backing up your registry before running commands
In Windows 11, the standard right-click menu is a simplified design that hides many options behind a "Show more options" button. This command overrides the system's "modern" context menu component by creating a blank registry entry for its specific Class ID (CLSID).
recommend backing up your registry before running commands like this. Not "Future-Proof":